Effective immediately, the Blanco County Recycling Center will not accept plastics of any grade, according to the County Commissioner and Blanco Recycling Center Manager Paul Granberg.
“Due to market conditions beyond our control, there is no place in the world that will accept plastics,” he said. “At one time we had three buyers who would take plastics.
Blanco County Commissioners held a Special Meeting on March 26, 2019. All four Commissioners and Blanco County Judge Brett Bray attended the meeting.
Ken Nickel, Executive Director of Hill Country Children’s Advocacy Center gave a presentation to the Commissioners. According to Nickel, “Ten percent of all children under age 18 have been sexually abused by the age of 18, and 95% of them know the predators.
In the world of literature there is perhaps no other form writing that is more diverse than poetry. From odes and sonnets to limericks and ballads these unique pieces of prose artfully paint mental masterpieces in the minds of the reader, or listener as they visualize the stories being told.
The League of Women Voters of the Hill Country is conducting a Candidate Forum on Saturday, April 6 from 9:30am to 12 noon. The candidates for the Johnson City ISD Trustee election are scheduled from 9:30am to 10:35am and the candidates for the Mayor and City Council of Johnson City are scheduled from 10:45 to 12:15pm.
AUSTIN — Last week, with 60 days remaining until the end of the 140-day regular session of the 86th Texas Legislature, the House and Senate vaulted closer toward finalizing a state budget.
On March 27, the House of Representatives voted 149-0 in favor of HB 1, its version of the state budget for fiscal years 2020 and 2021.
The annual plant sale presented by Blanco County Master Gardeners will be located at the First United Methodist Church, 105 LBJ Drive, Johnson City, Saturday, April 6, 9 am to 4 pm.
This year the Master Gardeners have organized an event to not only encompass sale of native and vegetable plants and grasses but information everyone can use while planning and tending their gardens and landscapes.
Gardenscape, an annual community informational program about a variety of timely topics on plant ...
Trinity Lutheran Church in Stonewall will host their annual Fish Fry on Sunday, April 14, 2019. Lunch will be served beginning at 11:30 a.m. and will be sold by donation. A drive-through line for To-Go Meals will be available as well. Meal includes fried fish, hush puppies and all the trimmings and home-made desserts.
Trinity’s Happy Quilters have been busy quilting a beautiful full size quilt.
Highland Lakes Creative Arts and the Phoenix Center are expanding their partnership to include the promotion of Family Art Day during Paint the Town 2019. The event is free and open to the public from 10 a.m.- 5 p.m. on Saturday, April 6 at the Lakeside Pavilion in Marble Falls.
The Quick Draw Competition begins at 10 a.m.
The Johnson City Record Courier at 110 E Main Street has new office hours. With the exception of being out on assignment, the hours are 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Monday through Thursday. If no one is here, there will be a note on the door with our expected return time.
According to the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center due to a mild and damp winter the wildflowers are making an early start in blooming. Although early, the bluebonnets seem to be bountiful in most areas of the hill country.
Lady Bird had a love for the wildflowers of Texas which led her and Helen Hayes to establish the National Wildflower Research Center in 1982.
